There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
Seventeen times as high as the moon;
Where she was going I couldn't but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I,
Where are you going up so high?"
"To brush the cobwebs off the sky!"
"May I go with you?"
"Aye, by-and-by."